The Will to Survive: The New World's Order

1. America. If you are previously from some where else, or crossing the border from a nearby country, you're all good, but I would like for the majority of it to take place in America.

2. The NDO is basically the backstory, and what has pushed the few survivors apart from eachother, but will now be the uniting force. They add a second enemy other than the walkers, so while you're hiding from them, you also need to be sure to be careful not to get caught, because now survivors are targets to be killed.

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Jupiter's moon Europa: Send a submarine to explore it?

Jupiter's moon Europa is a icy shell with an underground ocean. The new movie 'Europa Report' is based on real science, and NASA ideas about how to explore Jupiter's fourth largest moon.

By Miriam Kramer,?Space.com / August 3, 2013

With a cold ocean under an icy shell, some have theorized that Europa is the most likely place to find life in the solar system.

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Jupiter's icy moon Europa is shrouded in mystery.

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Scientists have long been intrigued by Jupiter's fourth largest moon with its underground ocean and icy shell. Researchers have said that Europa's saltwater ocean could harbor life, and some have theorized that it is the most likely place to find life in the solar system.

"[Europa] is one of the premier places to search for living life, that is, life that's alive today, life that we can poke and prod at and ask this fundamental question of what makes it tick," said Kevin Hand, the deputy chief scientist of solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Is its fundamental biochemistry the same as that on Earth or is it different? Is the origin of life easy or hard? There are all questions that Europa could potentially answer." [See Photos of Europa, An Icy Moon of Jupiter]

Unmanned robotic landers, deep space probes and even manned missions could help researchers answer some of those outstanding questions.

Scientists know that Europa is covered in a shell of ice, and data suggest that an ocean of liquid water also lurks below the surface. Some hope to send a submersible with the ability to dive beneath the ice to explore Europa's salty interior.

Building a submersible

In 2011, NASA awarded Stone Aerospace $4 million to continue the development of its "cryobot" project designed to autonomously explore the ocean of the moon.

"When we speak of the Europa mission at our shop we are talking about going for the gold ring: landing on the surface of Europa; sending a nuclear-powered cryobot carrier vehicle through the ice crust; discharging a nuclear-powered 'fast mover' autonomous underwater carrier vehicle that has planet-scale range, and selectively launching a series of miniaturized, highly intelligent AUVs [Autonomous Underwater Vehicles] to go into the more dangerous areas (e.g. around black smokers, up into ice cracks, into corrosive chemical plumes) to search for and collect biological samples and bring them back to the mother ship," Stone Aerospace CEO Bill Stone wrote told SPACE.com in an email.

Ideally, the robotic instruments included with the lander would come equipped with life-detecting instrumentation. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System]

Scientists are getting closer to developing viable versions of these scientific instruments that could travel to Europa, Stone said.

"The U.S. science community is today, thanks to NASA funding, on the verge of having available portable molecular DNA sequencers that could allow a Europa AUV to characterize life found on Europa at the microbial scale and then to return to the cryobot and uplink the information to the lander and back to Earth," Stone said.

Flybys and remote sensing

Scientists can also learn about Europa through remote sensing, using spacecraft flybys of the moon like NASA's Galileo spacecraft did after it arrived at Jupiter in 1995.

"There's a vast array of things you can learn from satellite observations of a planet," said Jeffrey Plaut, a NASA scientist at JPL. "If you're talking about Europa specifically, the science objectives have been laid out pretty clearly over the years for various space-born observations of Europa. Some very fundamental things like: How thick is the ice shell? Where is the ocean?"

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Philippines falls to Chinese-Taipei in FIBA-Asia

Global Times - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Defending champions China suffered their second defeat at the 27th Asian Men's Basketball Championship here on Saturday as they lost to Iran 70-51.It is their first meeting at the Asian championship in four years after China went down to Iran 70-52 in the 2009 final.Yi Jianlian's absence due to injury gave Iran more chances to play inside the paint, in which they outscored China ...

Chinese Taipei beats Philippines 84-79 in Asia Basketball Championship

Global Times - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Chinese Taipei overcame a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter with a furious rally to beat the Philippines 84-79 on Saturday night to remain unbeaten in the Asia Basketball Championship at the Mall of Asia Arena in the Philippines.Lu Cheng-Ju led Chinese Taipei with 22 points and hit six three-pointers to lead their comeback in the final quarter by outscoring the Filipinos, 29-11, in the ...

Rouhani becomes Irans presidentHassan Rouhani took office as Irans president on Saturday succeeding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed him state TV said.

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed him, Iranian media said. Rouhani's resounding election win in June raised hopes of a negotiated end to the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme. That would avert a possible new war in the Middle East. Khamenei kissed Rouhani on the cheek and the new president kissed the leader on his lapel. The start of Rouhani's presidency puts an ...

At least 11 killed in Mexico clashes

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico / Tamaulipas: At least 11 people died and 17 others were wounded in clashes in northern Mexico between security forces and criminal gangs, authorities said Saturday. The bloody confrontations ocurred in the states of Tamaulipas, Durango and Sinaloa, where violent drug cartels are vying for power. Clashes in the city of Reynosa, near the American border, early Saturday ...

Now Chinese court officials under lens in sex scandal

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

sex scandal at a night club. City authorities ordered the probe after there were reports on the internet that the officials had called for prostitutes at the Hengshan Resort in Shanghai on the night of June 9. Two of the officials being investigated are Chen Xueming and Zhao Minghua, chief and deputy chief of the court's No. 1 civil court, who function as judges. The Shanghai Municipal ...

White House holds high-level meeting over security threat

West Australian - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Reuters ? A police trooper mans a machine gun mounted on an armoured personnel carrier, which is positioned near the British embassy in Sanaa August 3, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled ...

Egypt Morsi supporters unswayed after US envoy talks

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Guido Westerwelle , comes as the international community pushes Morsi loyalists and the army-installed interim government to reach a compromise. But in a statement issued early on Sunday, the political arm of ...

Hanif Kureishis next book on Naipaul and his biographer Patrick French

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Hanif Kureishi will come out with his novel, Last Words, in February 2014. The story revolves around the real life incident involving award winning British author French's visit to Sir Vidya's home. In 2001, French was invited to write Naipaul's authorised biography, The World Is What It Is. Indian-Trinidadian author Naipaul opened up to French about subjects he has rarely spoken ...

REFILE-Alabama Nuclear plant releases carbon dioxide no damage injuries

Reuters - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Sat Aug 3, 2013 8:42pm EDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Aug 3 (Reuters) - A carbon dioxide spray used as a flame retardant was inadvertently released and an alert declared at a nuclear power plant in southern Alabama early on Saturday, plant owner Alabama Power Company said, adding there were no signs of fire or damage and no injuries or health threats. The Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant operates a two-unit ...

Kuwait forms new Cabinet names al-Shamali oil minister -state news agency

Reuters - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

ABU DHABI | Sat Aug 3, 2013 8:41pm EDT ABU DHABI Aug 4 (Reuters) - Mustapha al-Shamali was appointed oil minister in Kuwait's new Cabinet, state news agency KUNA said on Sunday after a parliamentary election in the major crude producer last month. The position was previously held on an acting basis by al-Shamali, after his predecessor, Hani Hussein, resigned in May under pressure ...

They think its all ova Bill Grangers Asia-influenced egg recipes

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This isn't the prettiest of dishes, but I can guarantee it's one of the most comforting meals you could have. Oddly, the name means mother (the chicken) and child (the egg), which is quite creepy, but not so much that I'd let it get between me and a good meal...4 tbsp mirin 3 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp caster sugar 250ml/8fl oz dashi stock or light chicken stock 1 onion, sliced ...

Japanese rocket launch sends supplies robot to space station

Channel News Asia - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Japan launched a cargo-carrying rocket on Sunday loaded with supplies for the crew of the International SpaceStation, along with a small robot meant as a companion for one of the country's ...

Outbound capital from Asia Pacific into real estate grows steadily.

4Hoteliers - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Continued net flow of capital out of the Americas and Asia Pacific into Europe. The net flow of overseas capital into European commercial real estate in H1 2013 rose by 18 percent y-o-y, to top USD 12 billion with Asia Pacific investors deploying USD5.6 ...

World looking to Asia for economic salvation

C News - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Tokyo, Japan. TORONTO - Welcome to the Pacific Century. The world is looking to Asia for its economic salvation -- now, tomorrow and for the next 100 years at least. Canada is looking, too. A little shyly perhaps, with reservations and some constraints attached, but we are interested in the suitor(s) all the same. A new survey by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF) reveals that, ...

Libyas deputy prime minister resigns

Reuters - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libya's deputy prime minister, Awad al-Barasi, resigned on Saturday, saying he was not given enough powers to carry out his ...

Tens of thousands turn out in support of Tunisia government

Reuters - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Supporters of the Islamist Ennahda movement wave flags as they chant slogans during a demonstration in support of the Ennahda government and against calls for its dissolution, outside the Constituent Assembly headquarters in Tunis, August 2, ...

China US Should Insist on Rights Benchmarks in Talks

Human Rights Watch - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

American officials should approach this interaction acutely aware that people in China who are trying to have exactly the same discussions with the government are being arbitrarily detained and prosecuted. US officials should use this opportunity to do what people in China want: to try their best to hold the Chinese government accountable for its human rights ...

In New York mayor race lesbian candidate struggles to win womens vote

Reuters - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

New York mayoral candidate Christine Quinn waves to the crowd while attending the annual Dominican Day Parade in the Bronx, New York July 28, ...

Crisis-hit Tunisia presses hunt for jihadistsTunisias army pressed ahead Saturday with operations against Islamists in a remote mountain range after a deadly ambush on its troops heightened a crisis sparked by a political assassination.

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

mountain range after a deadly ambush on its troops heightened a crisis sparked by a political assassination. The authorities kept a tight lid on the overland and helicopter raids launched on Friday in ...

Brazil cops jailed for life in 1992 prison massacre caseTwenty-five police officers were sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for their role in the 1992 Carandiru prison massacre that left 111 prisoners dead.

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

prisoners dead. Each officer was sentenced to 624 years in prison for using deadly force to quell a fight among inmates. The court found the officers guilty of killing 52 prisoners. A seven-person jury reached the sentence, which was read out by the presiding judge early on Saturday. The sentence was reached after a week-long trial, the second part of a process broken into four in which 79 ...

Canada to shut Dhaka mission on Sunday

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

OTTAWA, Province of Ontario: Canada will shutter its mission in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday, a spokesman said, citing security reasons amid global concern over terror threats. The United States has ordered its embassies across the Islamic world to close temporarily, while Germany, Britain and France said they would shut their missions in Yemen for at least two days. Canada said that ...

Happy Holi from Berlin to Britain

Times of India - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Holi in India is one big party. And now the festival has inspired a new generation of clubbers and festival goers across the world to use clouds of coloured powder to turn each other into human rainbows. The idea of Holi-themed parties was the brainchild of German entrepreneur Jasper Hellman who attended a celebration in India in 2011 and took the idea back with him to Berlin, where he organized ...

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Just in: FDA names Taylor Farms of Mexico as source of parasite-tainted salad mix

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Pelosi blasts 'make matters worse' congress taking recess | The ...

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WASHINGTON ? An hour before members of congress made their way to the exits for a five-week recess, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lambasted the Republican-controlled body for not only doing nothing, but making things worse.

?How do we explain to the American people that we?re going into an August recess and ? we still have no jobs bill, we have no budget bill, and we have the threat of shutting down government and not raising the debt ceiling without repealing the Affordable Care Act,? the California Democrat said at a press conference Friday morning.

The fiscal year comes to an end on September 30, along with the continuing resolution that is currently funding the government. As of yet, congress has reached no deal to continue funding the government past that date. And the House will be in session for only nine more days before that deadline.

?It was a do-nothing [congress], and now it is gone to something worse,? Pelosi said. ?It is an aimless congress that is falling into chaos: the ?make matters worse? congress. We should not leave until we address the challenges that we face.?

Speaker of the House John Boehner said Thursday that congress would have time when it returned to deal with the pressing fiscal matters. But Pelosi sounded skeptical.

?It?s one thing to leave having a plan in place to address the problems, or to have addressed it,? she said. ?And usually what you try to do whether you?re studying for an exam at school, or the semester?s coming to an end and you have your papers, you get your work done in a timely fashion.

?If their work that they want to get done is nothing, then they?re right on schedule,? she said.

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Kerry: Egypt?s military restored democracy

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Egypt?s army had not seized power after toppling President Mohamed Mursi, as Islamists summoned their followers to resume protests and defy orders to disperse.

The Egyptian army ?was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people,? Kerry told Pakistan?s Geo TV yesterday, according to a State Department transcript. The military ?did not take over,? he said, and ?in effect they were restoring democracy.? Kerry also criticized the shooting of pro-Mursi demonstrators by security forces, saying the U.S. was ?very, very concerned.?

He later said in London that ?all of the parties involved have a responsibility to be inclusive, to work toward a peaceful resolution? and the ?last thing we want is more violence.? Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will begin a visit to Cairo today, the State Department said in statement.

Brotherhood supporters massed in Cairo and other cities after Friday prayers again today to demand Mursi?s reinstatement following his removal by the army on July 3, television pictures showed. ?Down with the commander of the armed forces, Mursi is our president,? they chanted as they waved national flags.

Calls by Mursi?s Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters to join rallies today have fueled fears of further violence, after dozens of Islamists were killed last weekend. The Interior Ministry yesterday signaled a police crackdown against pro-Mursi sit-ins in two of the capital?s main squares, promising safe conduct to those who left now.

Media Protest

Security forces fired tear gas at protesters in Cairo?s media city, where several pro-Mursi television channels have been shut down, Al Jazeera TV reported. The demonstrators had been trying to break through gates, Al Jazeera said, citing the Interior Ministry.

The overthrow of Mursi, Egypt?s first freely elected civilian leader, has escalated the tensions between Islamists and their opponents that built up during his one-year rule, and extended the political turmoil that has persisted since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.

Since July 3, authorities have been rounding up Islamist leaders and freezing their assets. The Brotherhood?s top official, Mohammed Badie, was charged with incitement to murder this week. The group?s supporters have remained on the streets and scores have been killed in clashes with police.

?Brothers? Blood

Mohamed Hassan, an influential preacher in Islam?s Salafi movement, urged Egyptians to take part in today?s rallies, dubbed by their organizers ?Egypt Against the Coup.?

?Don?t leave your brothers in the squares to be slaughtered,? he said in a broadcast on Al Jazeera yesterday. ?The blood of our sons will become a curse on those who spill it.?

Thousands of Mursi supporters gathered in squares in Nahda and Rabaa Al-Adawiya in Cairo, where the Brotherhood released birds into the air, saying it wanted to illustrate the protests were peaceful.

The Interior Ministry appealed to demonstrators to ?resort to reason, prioritize the interests of the homeland, heed the public interest and swiftly leave for everyone?s safety.?

Egypt?s army-backed government accuses the Brotherhood of inciting violence to portray itself as a victim.

The U.S. has had close ties to Egypt?s army for three decades, and gives it about $1.3 billion in aid each year. The administration has declined to label Mursi?s ouster a coup, which by U.S. law would require the aid to be cut.

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LIRNEasia at Nepal Internet Society's well-attended discussion in ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I discussed two elements of the Internet eco-system, attractive apps and content and trust, with an audience of interested and informed members of the Nepal Internet Society in Kathmandu on August 1, 2013. Discussion focused on how innovation could be fostered in Nepal, on cyber-security, and what could be done in the short and medium term for the young people of Nepal to grab the opportunities afforded by the new mobile-first Internet eco-system.

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Bulgarian MPs Approve New BGN 1 B Foreign Debt

The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament approved Thursday a new loan in the amount of BGN 1 B, giving the government the authority to apply for it and receive it.

The vote happened in the frame of the second reading debates on revising State budget 2013.

According to the amendment to the State Budget Act, the Council of Ministries can now assume foreign State debt including through the issuing of government securities in international markets, totaling BGN 1 B or its equivalent in another currency, under the terms of follow-up ratification.

A total of 201 MPs were in plenary hall and took part in the vote.

107 voted for, 87 ? against, and 7 abstained.

Those against were from the opposition Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB.

The debates on the budget actualization continue.

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Sri Lanka vs South Africa 1st T20 Video Highlights - SA v SL 2013

JP Duminy hit a fighting Half Century and then returned to pick up 3 wickets as South Africa sneaked through by 12 runs.

Click here to Watch the Sri Lanka vs South Africa 1st T20 Cricket Match Full Video Highlights

South Africa 115 for 6 (Duminy 51, Senanayake 3-14) beat Sri Lanka 103 for 9 (Sangakkara 59*, Duminy 3-18) by 12 runs?

Click here to Watch the Sri Lanka vs South Africa 1st T20 Cricket Match Full Video Highlights

Replay the manner in which South Africa were defeated four times on their tour of Sri Lanka so far and you would have expected them to lose this match as well. The top order failed, the middle order was exposed but only just hung together and the bowlers had too little to work with. But this time, they pulled off a heist despite all their deficiencies.

JP Duminy followed up his half-century with a match-winning bowling performance while Morne Morkel and Wayne Parnell finally showed capabilities of bowling at the death. Kumar Sangakkara's 59 was one of only two double-figure scores on Sri Lanka's card as the rest battled on a slow surface.

South African fans would not have expected that, after their team seemed to have lost the match before the first innings powerplay was even complete. Sri Lanka's offspinner Sachitra Senanayake plucked three wickets from a top order that has yet to find their confidence. Their bowlers, though, had theirs boosted after they defended a low total which required Sri Lanka to score just 37 runs in the last five overs.

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Fisher Communications shareholders want more from Sinclair to sell

By Sruthi Ramakrishnan

(Reuters) - Three minority shareholders of Fisher Communications Inc said a $373 million takeover bid by Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc undervalues the TV broadcaster and are looking to activist investor Mario Gabelli to derail the offer.

Sinclair, which describes itself as the largest television broadcasting group in the United States, said in April it would buy Seattle-based Fisher for $41 a share in cash to expand its operations in the western United States.

For the deal to go through, about two-thirds of Fisher's shareholders need to vote in favor at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 6.

Three investors in Fisher, with a cumulative stake of more than 5 percent, said they believed Sinclair's offer undervalued the company. They declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Despite opposing the offer, two of them said they would be unlikely to vote against it unless a larger shareholder were to push for a higher price.

That investor would probably need to be Mario Gabelli, whose 26.3 percent stake in Fisher as of March 31 made him the company's biggest shareholder.

"We'd need somebody like him to do that for us to come (out) against it," one of the minority shareholders said.

Gabelli's Gamco Investors Inc bought Fisher shares in separate tranches last month, at time paying just above Sinclair's offer price, according to SEC filings.

Gabelli told Reuters that his investment team was still divided on which way to vote. Some of his fund managers want a better price while others want to take the deal on offer.

"I will make the decision pretty soon," he said. "If we vote against, we will file a 13D ... probably no later than Monday."

With acquisitions totaling about $2 billion in the last year, Baltimore-based Sinclair has been among the most active TV station buyers in a broadcasting industry boom.

Renewed interest in TV stations has been driven by revenue streams available from advertising and cable operators, who pay stations re-transmission fees to carry their channels.

"We are excited by Fisher's standalone prospects. We believe Fisher would be valued significantly above $41 (a share) if the Sinclair deal is voted down," a second investor told Reuters.

A fair distribution of the value created through a Fisher-Sinclair combination would be $48 a share, the shareholder said.

Gabelli, whose funds handle more than $30 billion in assets, has been pushing Fisher for about a year to consider a leveraged restructuring with funds borrowed from shareholders. (http://link.reuters.com/gef22v)

Fisher declined to comment and Sinclair was not immediately available for comment.

Fisher's shares have risen 5 percent since the deal was announced, while Sinclair's stock is up 27 percent.

(Editing by Robin Paxton and Rodney Joyce)

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Why the return of the wolf is good news for the bear

New research shows that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park has brought a berry boon to bears, a find that suggests the far-flung, often unexpected impacts a top predator can have on its ecosystem.?

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / July 29, 2013

The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park after a 70 year disappearance has brought a berry boon to bears, scientists have found.

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The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park has delivered a boon of berries to the area?s grizzly bears, according to new research that highlights the vast ecological reaches of an ecosystem?s top predators.

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Researchers at Oregon State University have found that a surge in the wolf population in the northwestern United States over the past 19 years has set off an ecological chain reaction that?s in the end good news for bears: more wolves has cut into elk numbers, thus raising the amount of available berries, thereby providing a juicy supply of food for bears. The new research joins mounting studies pinpointing how a food chain?s top animal ? from Spain?s lynx to the Pacific Ocean?s shark ? is critical to an ecosystem?s success, emphasizing the importance of programs aimed at protecting some of nature?s most ferocious predators.?

?Scientists from all over the world are finding that top predators have strong ecological effects,? says William Ripple, a professor of forest ecosystems at Oregon State University and lead author on the paper, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. ?The top predator can influence the biodiversity of an entire ecosystem.?

The grey wolf, with its confident, yellow-eyed gaze and strong-featured face rimmed in thick hair, has been a focal point of environmentalist debates dating back some 100 years. The drama begins around 1900, when the US government backed sweeping ?predator control? programs that tore into the wolf populations in Yellowstone, the geyser-studded park established in 1872 in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

The programs ? or, organized hunts ? were effective: as of about 1970, all the wolves had been removed from the park. And, in the predator?s absence, other populations exploded: the elk, a massive mammal with antlers fanning like pterodactyl wings, boomed in number.

But in 1995, the US acted on years-in-the-making plans to reintroduce wolves to the park, responding to accumulating evidence that the original program had been shortsighted and that the ecosystem was now reeling from the loss of a keystone species. That endeavor that has been successful enough for the government to this year make the controversial statement that the wolf no longer needs endangered species protection.

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Apple Directors Bill Campbell and Millard Drexler Exercise and Sell Stock Options Worth $13.8 Million [Mac Blog]

Apple directors Bill Campbell and Millard Drexler recently exercised and sold more than 42,000 Director Stock Options according to documents filed today with the SEC.

Drexler, the chairman and CEO of clothing retailer J. Crew, exercised a series of Director Stock Option grants from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, for a total of 32,562 shares at exercise prices ranging from $113.62 to $202. He then turned around and sold the shares for roughly $449 each. Drexler netted roughly $9.5 million from the haul, the stock options being by far the most significant benefit of being on Apple's Board of Directors.

Campbell, who is chairman and the former CEO of intuit -- and the longest tenured director at Apple -- exercised a 10,000-share Director option grant at a strike price of $10.19. He then sold the stock for $440/share, for a net of $4.3 million.

Apple Non-Employee Directors typically make $50,000 per year in cash plus an additional stipend for serving on the various director committees. Tim Cook does not receive any additional pay for serving on the board.

In addition, under the Company?s Board of Directors Equipment Program, each Non-Employee Director is eligible to receive, upon request and free of charge, one of each new product introduced by the Company and is eligible to purchase additional equipment at a discount.

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